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== External links ==
== External links ==


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Jester The Court Jester] @ Wikipedia
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt37TRvU_Mw The Court Jester - Trailer] @ YouTube
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzmnSyqv37A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzmnSyqv37A] @ YouTube
=== Social media ===
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1584701555038883840 Post] @ Twitter (24 October 2022)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1503338635730554883 Post] @ Twitter (14 March 2021)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1503338635730554883 Post] @ Twitter (14 March 2021)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1388301133341503493 Post] @ Twitter (30 April 2021)
* [https://twitter.com/GnomonChronicl1/status/1388301133341503493 Post] @ Twitter (30 April 2021)


* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Court_Jester The Court Jester] @ Wikipedia
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Latest revision as of 18:38, 2 June 2024

Earliest known poster for Undercover Jeseter.

Undercover Jester is a 1955 medieval police procedural training film starring Danny Kaye as a police forensic dramatist working undercover as a court jester.

Plot

While working undercover as a court jester, police forensic dramatist discovers that stunt man and swordmaster Crispin Glover has secretly re-written the prescription for the pellet with the poison.

But is Glover a thespian genius or a one-man neurochemistry experiment?

In the News

Fiction cross-reference

Nonfiction cross-reference

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Social media

  • Post @ Twitter (24 October 2022)
  • Post @ Twitter (14 March 2021)
  • Post @ Twitter (30 April 2021)